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Mirleidy Uzcategui, the wife of Richard García and a Venezuelan opposition leader in exile, is pictured with her daughter Sara, 3, at their home in Bogotá, Colombia, Jan. 9, 2026. Nathalia Angarita/The Globe and Mail.

Venezuela’s regime remains in place, but an exiled opposition makes plans to reshape the country

Venezuelans are hopeful the future may be different than the oppression and imprisonment that has come before

Nathan VanderKlippe

6 min read

Iran’s attorney-general warns of death penalty as weekend protests planned

Gauging scale of demonstrations grows more difficult with internet and phone lines cut off

Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned on Saturday that safeguarding security was a 'red line' and the military vowed to protect public property, as the clerical establishment stepped up efforts to quell the most widespread protests in years.

Reuters

4 min read

Kelly Pisak, Director of education at the District School Board of Niagara, and Neil Sheard, Superintendent of the District School Board of Niagara, at the DSBN offices in St. Catharines, Ontario, on January 9, 2026. (Nick Iwanyshyn/The Globe and Mail)

Niagara boards’ math strategies may be a lesson for Ontario

Two boards from the same region were singled out for their strong standardized test scores amid disappointing overall results

Dave McGinn

4 min read

Thousands protest against ICE across U.S. in aftermath of shootings

More than 1,000 demonstrations planned after shooting of Renee Nicole Macklin Good and two people in Portland

2 min read

Mining personnel and International journalists stand in front of a Hitachi battery-electric truck at Kansanshi copper mine of First Quantum Minerals in Solwezi, Zambia, Africa. Thursday, November 27, 2025. Alexander Arosemena / The Globe and Mail

The world is scrambling for Zambia’s critical minerals, with Canadian miners at the forefront

Soaring copper demand has turned Zambia and its neighbours into prime territory for global competition

Geoffrey York

15 min read

City crews check the damage on the Trans-Canada Highway the day after a water main break.

Calgarians’ water use remains stubbornly high despite city’s pleas after major main break

Residential consumption levels are ‘unsustainable’ after the pipe’s second rupture in less than two years

Matthew Scace

4 min read

Neptoon Records 'owner Rob Frith's collection of autographs by Sir Paul McCartney.

He found a lost Beatles audition tape. So he gave it back to Paul McCartney

Rob Frith never intended to sell the rare tape. Thanks to his decision, he met McCartney in California last year

Jonathan Dekel

4 min read

ST_Verbier-4Vallées-Snowpark_83540 Switzerland. At the ski resort in Verbier,

A few compromises turned a Verbier ski trip from unaffordable dream to great value

Our five-night stay included an expert guide, hearty late lunches and an unmissable après-ski party

Kevin Foley

4 min read

How we live

One of Austria’s most glamorous ski resorts offers something unexpected: a smugglers’ route

Silvretta Arena, on the border between Austria and Switzerland, celebrates the route, which became a lifeline between 1945 and 1955

4 min read

Dumbbells 101: Exercises for a stronger upper body

Paul Landini and Videography by Nick Iwanyshyn

Dumbbell Bench Press. Exercise demonstrations at the Globe and Mail on November 21,2025. (Nick Iwanyshyn/The Globe and Mail)

7 min read

A ski holiday in Poland? A visit to the wild alpine fun of Zakopane

Andrew Findlay

Ski Poland for Ski Travel package in Pursuits 2026 Kasprowy Wierch, in the Tatra Mountains and Poland's highest ski resort.

5 min read

A few compromises turned a Verbier ski trip from unaffordable dream to great value

Kevin Foley

4 min read

The right tote bag makes me feel great (and less like an anxious stranger in my own skin)

4 min read

Canadian companies poured money into Latin America. Trump’s Donroe Doctrine threatens their stability

Tim Kiladze and Niall McGee

8 min read

How Eva Gabor’s Rolls-Royce ended up in Saskatchewan

Jana G. Pruden

Ms. Gabor was 66 years old when she bought the Rolls-Royce with its gleaming red interior, one of several such cars she’d bought over the years.

3 min read

Brooks Koepka, out from LIV Golf, applies for PGA Tour membership again

FILE - Brooks Koepka, of the United States, acknowledges the crowd on the 5th green during the first round of the British Open golf championship at the Royal Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland, July 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)

3 min read

Rubber Duck Museum dodges Trump’s tariffs with a new nest in B.C.

Andrea Woo and Photography by Jimmy Jeong

4 min read

York professor seeks to chronicle exam cheating from centuries past to today

Tu Thanh Ha

Professor James Elwick looks on as students take an exam at York University in Toronto on December 16, 2025. (Sammy Kogan/The Globe and Mail)

4 min read

U.S. military says it carried out strikes in Syria targeting Islamic State militants

$A large Syrian flag flutters above Tishreen Park in Damascus on June 4, 2025. Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has in six months established himself internationally and had crippling sanctions removed, but still needs to rebuild national institutions, revive the economy and unite the fractured country. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP) (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA/AFP via Getty Images)$ $A large Syrian flag flutters above Tishreen Park in Damascus on June 4, 2025. Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has in six months established himself internationally and had crippling sanctions removed, but still needs to rebuild national institutions, revive the economy and unite the fractured country. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP) (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA/AFP via Getty Images)$ $A large Syrian flag flutters above Tishreen Park in Damascus on June 4, 2025. Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has in six months established himself internationally and had crippling sanctions removed, but still needs to rebuild national institutions, revive the economy and unite the fractured country. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP) (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA/AFP via Getty Images)$

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Ontario’s promise to people with disabilities left unfulfilled after more than 20 years

Jeff Gray

David Lepofsky is pictured in Toronto on December 15, 2025. Mr. Lepofsky is blind, a lawyer, and has fought for disability rights for decades. He says that the design of this bike path near Eglinton Ave/Avenue Road is dangerous for blind people like him.

The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) passed in 2005, and had promised to deliver on accessible Ontario by 2025— but has failed. Laura Proctor/The Globe and Mail)

4 min read

B.C. pursues new markets in India as diplomacy takes a back seat to trade

Justine Hunter

B.C. Premier David Eby waits for a meeting on new funding to support victims of crime in Surrey, B.C., Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns

4 min read

Greenland’s parliament will bring forward meeting to discuss U.S. threat

A woman walks past Greenland's parliament Inatsisartut in Nuuk, Greenland, March 28, 2025.

2 min read

Opinion

Looksmaxxing: A Gen Z boy’s reply to anti-male bias

Debra Soh

This illustration photo shows a video of male TikTok influencer hammering his cheekbone, playing on a smartphone in a bathroom next to a bottle of hydrogen peroxide and a hammer in Los Angeles, April 11, 2025. Hankering for a perfectly angular jaw, a male TikTok influencer hits his cheekbones with a hammer -- part of the popular online "looksmaxxing" trend that promotes unproven and often dangerous techniques to boost sexual appeal. Looksmaxxing influencers -- part of an online ecosystem dubbed the "manosphere" -- have surged in popularity across social media, capitalizing on the insecurities of young men eager to boost their physical attractiveness to women. (Photo by Chris DELMAS / AFP) (Photo by CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images)

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John A. Macdonald was no cartoon villain. He may have been our most human prime minister

J.D.M. Stewart

Statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in Queen's Park, Toronto, August 29, 1963. Photo by Boris Spremo / The Globe and Mail. Neg. #63241-61

4 min read

What’s really behind Toronto’s blue bin foul-up

Marcus Gee

3 min read

Buffalo Bills enter NFL playoffs in a sweet spot of experience and expectation

Cathal Kelly

4 min read

Thanks to Grok, the internet is even less safe for women

Marsha Lederman

4 min read

Donald Trump’s deportation drive is making a mockery of America’s promise

Joe Davidson

Demonstrators rally before marching to the White House in Washington on Thursday as they protest the fatal shooting by an ICE officer of Renee Nicole Macklin Good in Minneapolis.

4 min read

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Business & Finance

On Friday, SNC announced it clinched a deal to sell a 10 per cent stake in the Toronto area’s Highway 407 electronic toll road for as much as $3.25-billion to the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System. Current 407 shareholders Ferrovial SA and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board have the right to match the offer. Traffic signs for the 407 are photographed on Tuesday, January 29, 2019. (Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail)

Fraud group targeting Canadians with toll and parking scams, warns Montreal cybercrime firm

Alexandra Posadzki

3 min read

Pictured inside the Kristen French Court Support Centre
L to R - Krystal Joseph (court support staff), Brian Bratt (Executive Director), Liana Clarysse (court support staff), Joanne Macri ( Director of the Child Victim Court Support Program)
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Pitching in: Supporting children who have experienced abuse

Paul Waldie

2 min read

Ottawa will only have limited regulatory power over Rio buying Glencore, despite heavy Canadian footprint

Niall McGee, Nicolas Van Praet and Brent Jang

4 min read

opinion

Venezuela’s oil is coming back. So, stick with Suncor

Beyond the geopolitics, the Calgary-based company has good fundamentals

David Berman

4 min read

Home of the Week, 32 Himmelman Lane, Herman’s Island, N.S.

Home of the Week: An eco-friendly home on Nova Scotia’s Mahone Bay with a giant-sized dock

Shane Dingman

5 min read

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Shayne Savage, a retired police officer who is now a flight attendant for Porter Airlines.
Handout

A retired police officer takes his second act to the sky

Meera Raman

4 min read

Closeup of coffee cup with croissant on the wooden table in coffee shop

That time in my life when lattes were an essential expense

Erica Alini

2 min read

Opinion and Analysis

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Start 2026 with a LinkedIn cleanse so your network is actually meaningful

Eileen Dooley

4 min read

U.S. President Donald Trump listens to a question during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, on Jan. 3, in Palm Beach, Fla.

opinion

Wake up, Canada. The Trump Doctrine is aimed at us

Tony Keller

4 min read

(FILES) A picture taken on May 28, 2025 shows the sign of commodity trading and mining company giant Glencore at their headquarters in Baar, central Switzerland. Company giant Glencore increases its net loss to 655 million USD in the first half (compared to a loss of 233 million in the first half of 2024), according to a results release published on August 6, 2025. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Fourth time lucky? Rio Tinto and Glencore attempt another deal to create the world’s top mining company

Eric Reguly

4 min read

Proceeds from a new U.S.-Venezuela energy deal unveiled Wednesday will benefit 'the American people and the Venezuelan people at the discretion of the U.S. government,' according to a U.S. government fact sheet.

opinion

U.S. shamelessly profiteers from illicit Venezuelan oil

Rita Trichur

3 min read

Life & Culture

Grok’s AI-generated sexualized images of girls and women underscore struggle to regulate social media

Elon Musk’s image-generation tool has been deluged with prompts to explicitly alter images without consent

Authorities in France, India and Malaysia have announced investigations into Grok while British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has threatened to ban X entirely.

Samantha Edwards

5 min read

Documentary You Left Me Blue: The Handsome Ned Story finally gets its release

Brad Wheeler

Production still from film “You Left Me Blue: The Handsome Ned Story.”

4 min read

Ruth Ware on writing a long-awaited sequel to The Woman in Cabin 10: ‘It has all come spookily together’

Sarah Laing

The Woman in Cabin 10. Keira Knightley as Lo in The Woman in Cabin 10. Cr. Parisa Taghizadeh/Netflix © 2025 Based on a novel by Ruth Ware

5 min read

The secret advantage for children’s book publishers? Building relationships with school libraries

Josh O’Kane

“Shin-Chi’s Canoe” by Nicola I Campbell sits on the shelf at Anansi Bookshop in Toronto on January 5, 2026. (Laura Proctor/The Globe and Mail)

5 min read

Light-therapy lamps to chase away the winter blues

Matthew Hague

3 min read

In the know

How Kelvin and Rosita, both 64, can transfer wealth to their four kids with an estate freeze

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Ted Dixon

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B.C.’s plans to update heritage protections could majorly affect property owners

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